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Posts tagged “walking”

Day 29: The Plan

Posted on August 11, 2014

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Okay, friends, now that you have a little motivation, some proper shoes, and possibly a Fitbit, it’s time for the training plan.  Drill Sergeant Joe emailed me a spreadsheet, detailing how often, how far, and in what length of time I should walk every week.  Feel free to follow it with me, whether you’ll be in San Antonio in December to watch me face plant in front of the “lag wagon” half way through or are supporting from afar.  (You read that right – “lag wagon.”  Remember when I joked there would be an official who could scrape me off the asphalt, pour me into a golf cart, and convey me back to my car that unfolds into a movie theater playing a Rocky marathon”?  Turns out that’s half true!)  Happy walking, team.

Training Schedule PDF

Training Schedule

Categories: Team Monster

Tagged: #teammonster, half-marathon, marathon, training, walking

Guest Post: Quantitative V. Qualitative Data

Posted on August 5, 2014

By Rachel Morgan

It’s 10 steps from my office to the closest bathroom; 99 steps to the furthest bathroom. Roughly 3,341 steps from my front door to my office, and most frequently 35 from my kitchen to washing machine. Yes, I have a Fitbit.

In the mid 1980s my cousins and I paraded across the kitchen floor, wearing our grandparents’ pedometer, a machine roughly the size and design of a post office timestamp. A loud click poorly documented every other step or so. Fast forward some twenty years and I’m outside my classroom with a yardstick measuring a colleague’s footsteps. Her average gait is 25 inches compared to my 22.5. We’re both wearing bulky pedometers that eat the same batteries as hearing-aides. But 4,217 steps later we can see most of the San Fernando Valley nestled under a hazy marine layer. Below Fryman Canyon our jobs as high school English teachers, cell phones, and cars wait while we talk about our families, what we’re reading, our childhood— anything we don’t have to fact check.

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Tagged: Fitbit, pedometers, Rachel Morgan, walking

  

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